The Great Boston Molasses Flood: When Sweetness Turned Deadly
— February 26, 2026On January 15, 1919, the North End of Boston—a vibrant immigrant neighborhood near the…
Strange is relative, we get that. If you were raised in a society where it was considered normal to drink yak blood from human skulls, you would most likely consider it to be perfectly acceptable behavior. What one culture considers normal can be quite shocking to another. To most of us in the west, many of the following examples might be considered quite strange, but that’s obviously not the case for everyone.
Many children would be shocked and horrified to think of Rudolph being slaughtered, chopped up and packed into cans, but for many Norwegians this is quite normal. Just as many of us think nothing of ordering up a hamburger at a local fast food joint, reindeer meat is quite normal and and has been an important stable on Norwegian dinner plates for years.
On January 15, 1919, the North End of Boston—a vibrant immigrant neighborhood near the…
Reports of people finding disgusting items in their food is something we’ve all heard…
Getting a candy bar or a soda from a vending machine is so 1970s!…
Odd or what? That, presumably, is a matter of opinion, but despite your thoughts regarding what's found here, you know you just have to look! We scour the web looking for things that make you question your own version of reality and present them here for your perusal.

